Every time anyone with half a brain in their head gives any sensible advice apropos WordPress and Dreamweaver they get flamed by idiotic graphics designer coder wannabees. I am staying out of this. Sorry.
“designer code wannabee”
hmmmm – is that like someone who wants to understand more about design code? Is that your exclusive world root? Does that make me an idiot to want to know that? how old are you? 10?
I especially chuckled at your line “I am staying out of this. Sorry.” A little contradictory, don’t you think? Does that make a “wannabee” for intelligent social communication?
If there is anyone out there who can offer some intelligent advice, I’m asking if I can run php from 2 different folders on the same drive or separate drives, will they conflict? I don’t want risk overwriting my existing settings until such time as I decide to use wordpress exclusively over dreamweaver..
We all have to start somewhere… even you root
You are mixing apples and oranges.
Your topic title: wordpress & DW.
One is a publishing tool, a CMS* if you wish, the other is webpage maker thing.
They are not “interchangeable”… conf. use WP “over” DW.
Your tags: xampp vs. (spelling: versus; Latin) DW.
Again, xampp is a webserver application, making it easy to run Apache, PHP, MySQL on a Win box, and testing locally PHP scripts. DW, as we already clarified, is a web designer tool.
For me, none of your questions make sense.
You can have a million design tools installed, and you can have xampp installed. What do they have to do with each other??? And I could edit WP themes files (php) in a plain text editor even before xampp was installed on my computer.
So, where do you see the “big conflict” situation?
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*CMS = content management system
The conflict that I’m concerned about is mostly php. Now I’m running php scripted & configured to run in concert with apache, dreamweaver and mysql. If I try to download php again either binary or xampp, will it conflict with my existing setup?
I now understand, after having spoken to Bluehost, that I can do the whole thing (WP) on a remote server, however, I would prefer to use a local server. How would apache handle that? (for example).
Sorry, I’m having trouble explaining myself due to lack of experience.
Okay, Simon; it’s understood.
It’s just that some of what you’re saying is, if not confusing, incorrect. Dreamweaver is WYSIWYG/text editor for making websites, and as such, PHP cannot really be “configured” to work with it. But you can *use* Dreamweaver to work on PHP pages.
Sorry; I don’t have answers to the rest of your questions.
“doing WP on a remote server” = publishing your blog to the world/internet.
“using a local server” = having your own sandbox at home.
Again, this is not an either… or… situation.
I design/plan my themes (sometimes blogs) on a local xampp – and I publish ALL my blogs from ‘remote servers’, aka hosts.
The local xampp install is my workplace, sandbox, experimental lab 🙂
The published blogs (WP installs hosted by different host companies) are what I want to show to the world.
Ok, Thanks guys… I think I got it. Probably I’ll use a combination of both for now… I’m kinda used to dw at least in terms of basic design… I can see the day, however, that I get away from dw all together. Thanks all for your comments!
Simon
Dreamweaver is more of a webpage design tool, not so much a website design tool. Whats the difference? Typically ‘Designers’ create web page designs to have them chopped up and sliced into scripted web pages by software engineers and web developers that create websites.
I.e. WordPress theme developers typically create there designs as html pages, something Dreamweaver is good at. You can hit the ground running visualizing html fonts sizes, colors, css settings in the ‘approximation’ WYSIWYG editor (not perfect, but faster then going about it blindly or by one edit/upload/download/browser refresh at a time).
Once a Designer’s web page is sliced up into scripted files for dynamic functionality (a WP’s theme files header.php, footer.php, index.php for example) its difficult to turn back. But if you are a Dreamweaver user, try ThemeDreamer for WordPress, you can then open up your theme files directly in Dw and use it for design. Thats what Dw is good at.
http://www.themedreamer.com
